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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Cauley suing former partners

You may remember Gene Cauley, the Little Rock lawyer and real estate investor who is being investigated by federal prosecutors after withholding around $9.3 million, the last installment of a settlement payment, from victims of a class-action lawsuit. Well, now Cauley is suing his former law partners (the law firm formerly known as Cauley Bowman Carney and Williams), and their attorneys, for interference with a contractual relationship, breach of contract, and unlawful taking of property. How much is Cauley asking in damages? $10 million, plus costs and attorney fees. According to the filing in Pulaski County Circuit Court, Cauley says his former partners refuse to give him access to legal pleadings and filings in which he has a financial interest. He also charges that he is being denied fees owed to him.

In a federal court hearing last week, Cauley's attorney told U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff that giving any details regarding the missing money would incriminate his client. According to an article in Arkansas Business, the judge replied.

"It appears not unlikely from the little information available to me that Mr. Cauley may have committed a crime or several crimes, that he may have committed disbarrable conduct in one or many ways."

June 2018 is the expected publication date for a novel collaboration by former President Bill Clinton and crime writer James Patterson.

Matt Campbell, lawyer and Blue Hog Report blogger, has sent a Freedom of Information Act request to Jay Chessir, director of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Mayor Mark Stodola related to the publicity stunt yesterday built around withdrawing from the mayor's rash pronouncement that the city would seek an Amazon HQ2 project even though the city didn't meet the company's criteria.

Little Rock police have identified two women found dead of gunshot wounds in an SUV parked next to a vacant trailer in a mobile home park at 11500 Chicot Road.

Slideshows

Arkansas vs Ole Miss at War Memorial stadium in Little Rock, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. After leading for much of the game, Arkansas lost 37-33 when Ole Miss scored the game winning Touchdown with less that 2 minutes left.